On Feb 28, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Linda wrote: > > >> Ed Gould wrote: >> >>> Just a thought here. When I ran OE the DB was around 25G and it took >>> a good 15 minutes to back it up and that meant OE could not be >>> updating the DB while the back up was running. At least with >>> individual messages this shouldn't(?) be an issue. > > Outlook Express for Mac had a limit of, IIRC, 2GB for its database. > Perhaps > you mean that your database was 25MB rather than 25GB? > > ~Linda > > Linda, It was a few years ago. I thought it was 25G (because it took so long to back it up). In any case I will bow to your expertise. Maybe that is why is wasn't working very well for me because I was at (or passed the limit). I had never heard about a limit this is really new news to me. I was not a fan of the product anyway. But it did seem to work not that I was really impressed with it. Ed